JFK Remembered: That Awful Day

On November 22, 1963, the United States lost its 35th President, John F. Kennedy, to an assassin's bullet. Here are photos and remembrances from that day.

In this Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963 file photo, the flag-draped casket of President John F. Kennedy lies in state in the East Room of the White House in Washington. "Jackie Kennedy sent word that she wanted the East Room, where the president would lie in state, to look as it did when Lincoln's body lay there," remembers Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter and adviser to the administration. He and others went to work. Someone was sent to the Library of Congress for a sketch and a newspaper description from Lincoln's time; artists and upholsterers were called in, and black crepe was carefully hung. "In the midst of all these activities we would alternately break down in tears," Goodwin says. (AP Photo)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy, with bloodstains on her clothes, holds hands with her brother-in-law, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, as the coffin carrying the body of President John F. Kennedy is placed in an ambulance after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. near Washington. President Kennedy was assassinated earlier that afternoon in Dallas. (AP Photo)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 photo from the White House via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president as Jacqueline Kennedy stands at his side in the cabin of the presidential plane on the ground at Love Field in Dallas. Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a Kennedy appointee to the Federal court, left, administers the oath. In background, from left are, Associate Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff, holding microphone; Jack Valenti, administrative assistant to Johnson; Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Texas.; Lady Bird Johnson; and Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas. (AP Photo/White House, Cecil Stoughton, via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston)

In this Oct. 15, 2013 photo, Marie Tippit, left, widow of slain Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit, hugs her son Curtis Tippit after an interview about her husband in Dallas. Curtis is the youngest son of Tippit, who was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Marie speaks of the blessing of her husband's brief return home for lunch that day and of their years together. She is a great-grandmother now, but as a young widow treasured a letter she received from another, Jacqueline Kennedy. "She said that she had lit a flame for Jack and she was going to consider that it would burn for my husband, too, that it would burn forever." (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this Monday, Nov. 25, 1963 file photo, Marie Tippit, widow of police officer J.D. Tippit who was slain during the search for President John F. Kennedy's assassin, is led weeping from Beckley Hills Baptist Church in Dallas after funeral services for her husband. The services began about the time those for Kennedy were ending in Washington. (AP Photo)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, women burst into tears outside Parkland Hospital upon hearing that President John F. Kennedy died from a shooting while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. (AP Photo/File)

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows the movie theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. The Warren Commission said Oswald left the book depository moments after shots were fired from the sixth floor, returned by bus and cab to his rooming house, then ventured out again _ soon encountering a Dallas police officer who stopped him based on descriptions of the assassination suspect. According to the commission, Oswald fatally shot Patrolman J.D. Tippit with a handgun, then fled into the nearby movie theater. (AP Photo)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, ahe U.S. flag flies at half-staff in front of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas where President John F. Kennedy died after being shot. When the end came, eyes turned to Jacqueline Kennedy at her husband’s side. Dr. Robert McClelland recalls a kiss. Dr. Kenneth Salyer, who had done external cardiac massage, says, "She sort of laid on his chest ... in a sort of compassionate motion." (AP Photo/RAJ)

In this Oct. 3, 2013 photo, Dr. Ronald C. Jones speaks during an interview in his office at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Jones was the 31-year-old chief resident at Parkland Memorial Hospital on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 and one of the doctors who worked to save President John F. Kennedy's life after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. Through the open door of the trauma room, Jones saw a stoic Jackie Kennedy, moving from a folding chair placed for her outside the room to standing quietly inside as doctors assessed her husband. "His eyes were open, they were not moving," says Jones. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo of an Associated Press teletype news bulletin from Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 shows news that President Kennedy had died after being shot in Dallas. The message reads, "TWO PRIESTS STEPPED OUT OF PARKLAND HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY WARD TODAY AND SAID PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED OF HIS BULLET WOUNDS." The document is located in the AP Corporate Archives in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 photo, Dr. Robert McClelland holds the blood stained shirt he was wearing Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 when he treated President John F. Kennedy in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. McClelland stood at the head of Kennedy's gurney to hold the retractor in the incision doctors were making to explore the president's wound. "As soon as I got into that position," McClelland recalled recently, "I was shocked ... I said to Dr. [Malcolm] Perry, 'My God, have you seen the back of his head?' I said, 'It's gone.'" (AP Photo/LM Otero)

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo of an Associated Press teletype news bulletin from Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 shows news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. The document is in the AP Corporate Archives in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo of an Associated Press teletype news bulletin from Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 shows early news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. The document kept is in the AP Corporate Archives in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In this Oct. 21, 2013 photo, Dr. Michael Ellsasser, formerly of the Dallas Parkland Memorial Hospital, holds one of Jacqueline Kennedy's roses, which he encased in Lucite in Lubbock, Texas. In the empty trauma room after President John F. Kennedy died, two young residents noticed the first lady's roses, discarded and bloodstained. Each picked up one, and would preserve the flowers. "You can't really tell what it is," says Ellsasser, "but I still have it anyhow." (AP Photo/Betsy Blaney)

In this Dec. 3, 1963 file photo, James W. "Ike" Altgens, Associated Press Wirephoto operator-photographer, holds prints of the photographs he made of the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He recorded the Dealey Plaza chaos - including images of Kennedy grasping his throat and of Secret Service agent Clint Hill reaching for the first lady across the limo's trunk. (AP Photo/Dave Taylor)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the Presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas after being fatally shot. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service agent Clint Hill pushes her back to her seat. "She's going to go flying off the back of the car," Hill thought as he tried to secure the first lady. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)

In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Gov. John Connally was also shot. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo of an Associated Press teletype news bulletin from Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 shows early news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, in the AP Corporate Archives in New York. The document is timed at 12:40 p.m. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In this Feb. 14, 1969 file photo, Buell Wesley Frazier of Irving, Texas, a co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, leaves court after testifying in the Clay Shaw trial in New Orleans. Frazier testified that he gave Oswald a ride to work on the day of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Much was unusual about that morning. Normally, Oswald would wait to be picked up; normally, he would have carried a sack lunch. Unlike most Fridays, he told Frazier he would not need a ride home that night. And then there was the long, paper-wrapped package in the backseat. When Frazier asked, Oswald said it contained curtain rods. (AP Photo)

In this Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 file photo, Ruth Hyde Paine, who offered up her home and lent other aid to the Lee Harvey Oswald family prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, speaks to the Sonoma Valley Historical Society in Sonoma, Calif. In her first public remarks in recent years, Paine reflected on the events a half century ago and told how she helped Oswald land a job at the Texas School Book Depository from where the fatal bullets were fired. In the foreground is a photograph of her with the Oswald family taken the day after the assassination. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy, center on foreground platform, addresses a rain-soaked crowd in Fort Worth, Texas. In an interview, Secret Service agent Clint Hill recalled, "I heard the noise outside" of a large, friendly crowd gathering, despite the drizzle, for a speech _ Kennedy's first event of a packed day. (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman)

In this Dec. 5, 1963 file photo, Ruth Hyde Paine stands outside her home Irving, Texas. At the house on the morning of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald made coffee, dressed for work, then paused before leaving his wife, Marina, and two young daughters. He drew most of the cash from his pocket, removed his wedding ring and left both behind. Gathering up a parcel he'd retrieved from the garage, he departed. "Lee left a coffee cup in the sink," recalls Paine, whose house Marina and the girls were staying in. Oswald had come the previous evening to try - unsuccessfully - to reconcile with his estranged wife. (AP Photo)

In this Friday morning, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy, center, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, center right, walk through downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Later in the morning, they headed to Dallas for a motorcade to a planned luncheon speech. It was part of a trip to help mend a rift among Texas Democrats and try to secure the state for Kennedy in the 1964 election. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle)

President John F. and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field on Nov. 22, 1963.